December 22, 2011

With the completion of Norfork Dam and the creation of the massive Norfork Lake in the late 1940s, travel became a bit more difficult for the people of Baxter County and the surrounding area. Subsequent to the filling of the lake, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made payments of more than $1 million to compensate the state for local bridges that were submerged and for the establishment of free ferries across the lake. The ferry that replaced the Henderson Bridge is shown here in 1959.